Hug Emoji 🫂: Copy, Meaning and How to Send a Virtual Hug

What Does Each Hug Emoji Mean?

People also search for a hug symbol emoji or a hug smiley emoji; they almost always mean 🫂 or 🤗 from this table. The short version of the hug emoji meaning: 🫂 is for serious comfort, 🤗 is for light and happy moments, and 🧸 makes either one cuter.

Hugging Face Emoji 🤗: Hug or Jazz Hands?

For years 🤗 was officially called "hugging face", and many people still search for it by that name. Its official name is now smiling face with open hands. That change happened because many people read the open hands as excitement, "jazz hands" or a cheerful "welcome", rather than a hug.

So the hugging face emoji meaning depends on the chat:

• "Congrats on the new baby 🤗" = warm, happy hug.
• "Guess who got the internship 🤗" = excited, ta-da.
• "Welcome to the group 🤗" = open arms, friendly welcome.

If you want to comfort someone who is sad, 🫂 is clearer. 🤗 can look too cheerful next to bad news.

Hugging face emoji meaning in Hindi: गले लगाना (gale lagana) or स्वागत में बाहें फैलाना (swagat mein baahein phailana). 🫂 is simply झप्पी (jhappi), and a big tight hug is a jaadu ki jhappi for many Hindi speakers.

Virtual Hug Emoji: How to Send Comfort Online

A virtual hug works best with a few kind words. Some original lines:

• For a friend who is sad: Sending you the tightest hug 🫂❤️
• After an exam result: Proud of you no matter what 🫂🧸
• Get well soon: Rest well, hug from far away 🫂🌼
• Missing someone: Need a hug from you 🥺🫂
• Condolence: Deeply sorry. Holding you in my thoughts 🫂🤍
• Happy news: Big hug and congrats 🤗🎉

For a sympathy hug, keep it calm: 🫂 with 🤍 or 🙏 is gentle. Avoid 🤗 and party emojis there.

When a Guy Sends You a Hug Emoji

This is a common question, and the honest answer is: it depends on the person and the chat. In general:

• 🤗 from a classmate or colleague is usually just friendly or excited.
• 🫂 after you shared a problem usually means he cares and wants to comfort you.
• 🫂❤️ or 🧸 late at night, often may show he feels closer than a regular friend.

The same rules apply if a girl sends a hug emoji. Emoji meanings are informal, so if you are unsure, look at the rest of the conversation or simply ask.

Hug Emoji Text: Hugs Without Emojis

Hug emoji text, also called text hugs or kaomoji hugs, work in any app, game chat or SMS:

• (っ◔◡◔)っ arms reaching for a hug
• (つ≧▽≦)つ a happy, excited hug
• ⊂(◉‿◉)つ an open-arms hug
• {{hug}} or [[hugs]] the old internet style
• (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ a cute hug

For more faces made from symbols, visit text emoticons and smiley symbols.

Hugs and Kisses Emoji and Hug Day Messages

In letters people used to write XOXO for hugs and kisses (X for kiss, O for hug). In emoji it becomes 🫂😘 or 🤗💋 for a partner. For family, 🫂❤️ or 🤗😘 is sweeter and safer. More romantic faces are on love emoji and kiss emoji.

Hug Day falls in Valentine week. Short Hug Day emoji lines:

• Happy Hug Day, one tight jhappi for you 🫂❤️
• A teddy bear hug from me 🧸🤗
• To my best friend: Hug Day or not, you get one daily 🫂💛

For friendship hugs and group photos, see friends emoji.

How to Type, Copy or Download a Hug Emoji

Hug emoji copy and paste from the grid is quickest. To type it: on Android tap the smiley key and search "hug"; on iPhone tap the smiley or globe key and search "hug"; on Windows press Windows+.; on Mac press Control+Command+Space. In Word, type 1FAC2 then Alt+X to get 🫂. Emojis have no Alt codes.

Since 🫂 arrived in Emoji 13.0, very old phones may show it as a box. Send 🤗 or a text hug instead. For a hug emoji free download, or to download hug emoji images for a sticker, use the Download PNG button above the grid; it gives a transparent PNG you can use as a sticker or DP. Browse every category on the emoji hub.